11. The Queen Abandoned by Her Latest Love
Queen Mary and the Earl of Bothwell raised an army against their opponents. However, before any battle was fought, the royal couple’s forces evaporated, as their men deserted them. Bothwell was allowed to leave, provided he left Mary behind. Whatever love he might have felt for Mary, it was not greater than his love for his own life. Bothwell jumped at the chance to save his skin, and abandoned his wife to the tender mercies of her enemies.
Mary was taken captive to Edinburgh, where she was denounced as an adulteress and murderess, and imprisoned. On July 24th, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate in favor of her one-year-old son, James. She fled to England, where she got involved in further political intrigues, which ended with her beheading two decades later.
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